Monday, 19 March 2018

Where it all began - the Omari mosque in #Daraa, where protesters used to gather in 2011 - This @AFPphoto shot today, exactly 7 years into the #Syria conflict: image via AFP Beirut @AFP_Beirut, 15 March 2018

With #Russia’s support, Syrian govt forces are seizing Eastern #Ghouta using shockingly brutal but familiar tactics @hrw
Civilians incl. women, children were incinerated on Friday in an attack
that appeared to involve use of despicable incendiary weapons.: image via Mary Wareham @marywareham, 18 March 2018

More
than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of
injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018

More
than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of
injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018

More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018

More
than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of
injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018

Mark Zuckerberg running through Berlin with his bodyguards in 2016.photo Paul Zinken/EPA via The Guardian, 18 March 2018

Running to the Sunken Place

Hey, wanna hit The Sunken Place after we finish our closely guarded fun run through somebody else's city, guys?

Yo Mark sounds cool, but how bout we just find a dustbin and stuff you in it stop and get a latté instead, eh Homes?

Um ok I guess just so long as I make $972m while we're doing it and we get hella Likes! I so enjoy and see absolutely no contradiction in being both Rich and Progressive at the same time, don't you? Uh yes Mark.

Rebels in Syria's eastern Ghouta discussing ceasefire with UN – statement: Main rebel group in talks about aid and evacuation of sick and wounded as President Assad visits troops:Reuters in Beirut, Sunday 18 March 12:40 EDT

The main rebel group in the southern pocket of Syria’s
opposition-held eastern Ghouta has said it is negotiating with a United
Nations delegation about a ceasefire, aid and the evacuation of urgent
medical cases.“We are engaged in arranging serious negotiations to guarantee the
safety and protection of civilians,” said Wael Alwan, the Istanbul-based
spokesman for Failaq al-Rahman.“The most important points under negotiation are a ceasefire,
ensuring aid for civilians and the exit of medical cases and injured
people needing treatment outside Ghouta.”However, a general evacuation of civilians and rebels was not on the table, he said.The news came as Syrian state-run TV carried images of President
Bashar Assad visiting troops on the front line in the newly captured
areas of eastern Ghouta.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian government
was in control of more than 80% of the area, which has been a rebel
stronghold since 2012.In a month-long assault, pro-Syrian government forces have marched
into much of eastern Ghouta, the last major insurgent bastion around
Damascus.Troops have splintered Ghouta into three besieged zones in one of
the bloodiest offensives of the seven-year war, with rebels facing their
worst defeat since the battle of Aleppo in 2016.A number of patients requiring urgent medical attention have been
evacuated from the northern pocket and some aid has entered the area.
This has not yet happened in the southern pocket.Figures close to the two main rebel groups – Failaq al-Rahman in the
south and Jaish al-Islam in the north – have told Reuters discussions
are under way for the transfer of Failaq al-Rahman and Jaish al-Islam
fighters to opposition-held areas in northern and southern Syria respectively.After a morning of calm, shelling and ground battles resumed across
eastern Ghouta on Sunday afternoon, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said.The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA)
said on Thursday at least 20,000 people had left eastern Ghouta in the
past week, most from the southern pocket through the Hammouriyeh area.The Observatory said about 50,000 people had left the southern pocket in the past 72 hours and thousands left on Sunday.On Sunday, President Bashar al-Assad visited army positions in
Syria’s eastern Ghouta, Syrian state media reported. “In the line of
fire in eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian
Arab army,” read a caption next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of
men in military uniforms, some perched on top of tanks.

after life and time comes arriving in lebanon kentucky late alone and knowing no one long night of syria and kitty
traffic - first scaredest one of ferals spotty boy blind in both eyes conjunctivitis also
lame, having run gauntlet of dark path o'er ruled by blackie his enormous nemesis and son, showed up skulking and afraid then his daughter sweetie delighted silvery haired mistress of manor (not) by dragging in half-et corpse of
wee rodentleaving bloody un-et bits scattered through dark
rooms, as though old hauntedhouse were crazy red in tooth and claw animal extension of field hospitals of
Ghouta then getting caught up in random saint paddy's cop tangle in street after rich
woman from suburbs drove hubby's Boxter at high speed over curb (wanted Reverse, got Drive) straight at cinematically lit mouthbreathing-model window display alcove of highend Beauty Salon
(!) - stopt by im'movable object later lay awake in dark admiring imagined (?) word plink - then up sleepless, unable to find same word anywhere but in deranged old blind man's wig bubble billowing void repurposed as soundstage for greater resonance in chasms within nugget of victim’s
brain in fugue statethis night (spine) not get down broken steps in soon rain, only thing
down there anyway murder by vehicle, so stay up with
orphan ferals with blind eyes who drag in half eaten rodent corpses and
fight all night with raccoons on broken steps, pain in gut

another momentous whiteworld tragedy swedish and blond from walnut creek rammed her husband's pristine toy Boxter (he's in Tahoe skiing) she didsleek teardrop black and with MISTER BLACK platesinto hardmetal bikeparking stanchion afront avedahair body skin art emporium on the streetof the living futons, after only one drink she saidon saint paddy's night, she blond swedish and crying over smashed concave wheel wellas police were awaited and then arrived in wavesto not breath test her but inform her she would be liablefor the violated stanchion, she stopt tearflow to say insuranceconsequent cop imbroglio gawkers snapping shotswith idiotphones @midnight in sharp cold wind bleak dead murica of smasht carpartslater lower los angeles below toxic tunnel puddle large unhealthy lookingcoyote slowly ambled across street and up contracosta into enclosing nightWhat's time for if not to live in or was that life O rueful lustrous beauty I your broken tin soldier w heart of brass it's our Golden
Anniversary

With #Russia’s support, Syrian govt forces are seizing Eastern #Ghouta using shockingly brutal but familiar tactics @hrw
Civilians incl. women, children were incinerated on Friday in an attack
that appeared to involve use of despicable incendiary weapons.: image via Mary Wareham @marywareham, 18 March 2018